Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.